Omar Abdel Rahman

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News about Omar Abdel Rahman, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Aug. 10, 2013

Federal Judge John G Koeltl in Manhattan declines to order compassionate release for Lynne F Stewart, former defense lawyer for convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, from federal prison in Texas on grounds that she is dying of cancer; says he cannot order release unless Bureau of Prisons makes motion seeking such action. MORE

Jun. 29, 2012

Panel of federal judges in Manhattan upholds the 10-year prison sentence imposed on Lynne F Stewart, the disbarred lawyer convicted in a terrorism case who had been resentenced to that term after boasting that she could do a much shorter sentence; she had argued that the judge who had resentenced her had penalized her for comments she had made, in violation of her First Amendment rights; she was convicted in 2005 for smuggling messages from an imprisoned client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, to his violent followers in Egypt. MORE

Mar. 1, 2012

Lawyers for disbarred attorney Lynne F Stewart, sentenced to 10 years in prison for aiding terrorism after she helped imprisoned client Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman communicate with his followers, appear before United States Court of Appeals; argue that statements Stewart made in public after her trial that indicated a lack of remorse were used against her in sentencing decision, violating her free speech. MORE

Despite a defiant declaration of his innocence, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for plotting a series of bombings and assassinations that prosecutors said was intended to force the United States to end its support for the Governments of Israel and Egypt.

Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine other militant Muslims were convicted yesterday of conspiring to carry out a terrorist campaign of bombings and assassinations intended to destroy the United Nations and New York landmarks.

August 10, 2013, Saturday

Lynne Stewart, who was sentenced in 2010 to 10 years in prison for smuggling messages from an imprisoned client to his violent followers in Egypt, is seeking to have her sentence vacated because she has cancer.

February 26, 2011, Saturday

So that's why they tell their clients not to talk to us. Part of the ritual in covering courts as a reporter is going to lawyers after their clients are accused of something and getting the token ''No comment'' or ''We intend to vigorously...